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Believe In Tomorrow

Submitted by Bill Ponath on Fri, 09/17/2010 - 13:26

I was walking my dog this morning and had the pleasure of running into a member of the Arizona State Congress. We discussed many of the issues addressed in my book and; needless to say, he is very well versed in each of these critical areas.

 I explained my exuberance about the potential that we have for progress in many areas: health care, education, oil and energy, abortion, and our new Federal Congress. He was very happy about my work and wished me the best; but his experience has made him very cynical. He explained how the House and Senate had worked so hard in so many areas and then had to wake up to Janet Napolitano’s veto. He was downright angry concerning the two most recent Supreme Court appointments.

 I suppose cynicism is a very well-deserved emotion. I mean seriously; the U.S. Olympic Hockey team in 1980 didn’t stand a prayer against the Russians; why bother to put on your skates? Puny Boise State was bound to get creamed in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl against Oklahoma; they should have spent all of their practice time on creating an efficient stretcher team to remove the wounded from the field. Scott P. Brown, a Republican, being elected to the Massachusetts Senate seat? You have too many screws loose. 4,000 barely-armed Mexican farmers fighting 8,000 French soldiers and Mexican traitors with vast firepower on May 5, 1862 (Cinco de Mayo); they should just sew a big white flag. And what about my precious dog who developed diabetes four years ago at the age of one-and-a-half?  We had the option of putting her to sleep…so why the heck did she take a nap on my chest Sunday afternoon? Am I nuts?

 The truth of the matter is that everything discussed in my book is a paltry pipe-dream. Recall of Obama’s Universal Health Care plan “ain’t gonna happen”. Our children are stuck in the worst education system of any industrialized nation. We might as well start sending entitlements to illegal aliens before they even get here; that will speed up our economic collapse. Why drill for oil where we have more than two-thirds of all of the oil in the world; that will interfere with our close friendship with OPEC leadership and we will stop sending them our money. Why develop intelligent housing and economic legislation; even if we had the money, what would we do with it?

Sigh! Call me crazy but I don’t want to be a cynic. I am going to believe in America and keep fighting for progress. I am grateful that there are a pretty good number of lunatics who share my insanity. Please join our team. Learn about what is wrong and what we can do to make it right. My chapter on Abortion establishes that we are making progress. Allow me to paraphrase:  It’s not how hard you get hit and how often you fall; it’s how you keep coming back to the fight. God bless all of our soldiers on every front. We will win if we keep fighting. We will only lose if we give up. A problem is something you are trying to solve; a condition is what you are willing to accept.

 We have problems.

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